| Show A DEFUNSI OJ IOOTISLL I I It Is said that on one occasion when reproached by n Visitor for the brutality bru-tality of fox1 htlnUnll a sportlov ltiKllshman made i reply We all know as how the hound and the borers like It we aro sure tho hunters like It and no one to I able to prove thaI the foxes themselves dont like It Similar logic may lie employEd ns 10 football The crowds In attendance like It the players themselves like It arid so far us known the parents of the youthful gladiators are themselves rather fond of It I This at least Is tile case with Rome nt thm 11 IA I not u month since n young man playing for the University of Georgia was killed 1 In II scrImmage on Ilia rldlrn In Atlanta Tim state legislature In tho heat of prejudice Aroused Iy the fatality promptly passed the famous nnlltootbRII actits If to avenge the oung mans death by making simitar accidents ImpossI bio fur the future Hut the victimK mother who Is I made of stern If not Kpartan stuff has appealed to the governor gov-ernor to veto tho bill She ultra that football was her dead sons favorite game and that If he could he consulted con-sulted ho would Join In the request of his fellow students for the veto of the I 1111 Hho further calls the governors attention to the fact that two of her sons school mates have recently mt Accidental deaths one by falllnR over n precipice nnd olio b I > falling downstairs down-stairs and she aka It It Is I not equally sensible for the legislature to abolish precipices and stairways on account of these deaths six It Is I to Abolish football foot-ball because of the death of her son This unexpected argument and flea has thrown the enemies of the game Into some consternation and there Is I a pretty general feeling that tho best course to pursue In the future with reference to It IS1l with another great social I roblem not I to attempt Its prohibition but to vvorls for Us I I Tu I regulation When wellplaved foot bill Is I n rough but a good game IIY eliminating Homo of Its more dangerous features It tan be made a sport In which none but weaklings need bo afraid to participate |
